Helen Baldwin and Kenneth Baldwin interviewed by Gordon Dowell in the Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5037970
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Baldwin, Helen, 1952-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 41 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project.
- Summary:
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Spouses Helen and Kenneth Gregory Baldwin discuss Helen Baldwin’s coming to terms with her life experiences; her early memories and childhood; she and her siblings being removed from their mother; reasons for this removal; her life in care; church sponsorship; contact that she had with social workers whilst in school and in care; religion; visiting her mother’s home area and relations; employment; her children and grandchildren; university studies; accessing her departmental records; accessing her sibling’s records; her siblings and their current locations; maintaining contact with these siblings; watching the Apology on television; her feelings about the Apology and its effect; compensation; her children’s and grandchildren’s identification with and knowledge of Aboriginal culture and heritage; local Aboriginal organisations; her mother’s story being broadcast publicly; the importance of recognition.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 6 December 2010 in Ferntree Gully, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary not yet available.
- Subject:
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- Baldwin, Helen, 1952- -- Interviews
- Baldwin, Kenneth, 1947 -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Removal -- Personal narratives
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Child welfare -- Personal narratives
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Victoria
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- Creation date:
- 2010
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